Create Animal

The Veterinarian, Veterinarian Assistant or Practice Members will need to enter information on animals in order to maintain records and use those records to create CVIs, Test Records and Import Requests ultimately providing a history of each animal.  This module is designed to be inclusive of all species and be a maintainable database of information for the practice (for individual animals as well as a group of animals).  

If though you intend to use an animal, or group/lot of animals, one time (i.e. you do not anticipate wanting a history of this animal because of destination) you may not want to retain the animal information.  For single-time use do not enter the animal or group in your Animal Book, enter it when you add it to a CVI or Test Record, that way you will not clutter your Animal Book.

NOTES:

• Fields marked with an asterisk (*) are required.

To create an animal:

1. On the VSPS Home page, log on to VSPS.

2. From the left menu, select Business Profile.  The Business Profile Module page displays.

3. Click Animals.  The Animals Module page displays.

4. Click Create Animal.  The Create Animal page displays.

5. *Species - From the drop-down menu select the Species of this animal.  Depending on the species, you may have to select one of the following:

6. Single Animal:

• If you are adding a single animal.  Note:  equine will automatically default to Single Animal.  Continue with step 6.

• If you are adding multiples of the same-species animals that have a mixture of "ID Type" (i.e. RFID numbers, eartag numbers, tattoos, etc.), they must be entered individually.  Continue with step 6.

• Multiple Individual Animals:

• If you are entering in a herd of animals that have the same "ID Type" and the identifying numbers are available for manual entry or are stored on your computer as a text file or a CSV file - or - if the numbers are sequential.  
  
  Click either Multiple Animals (CSV or CR-LF) or Multiple Animals (Sequential):

1. Multiple Animals (CSV, CR-LF).  If you are adding multiple same-species animals using a file of animal IDs you have on your computer that you will upload (this file must be saved as a text or CSV file).  This file must have the same "ID Type" (i.e. all RFID numbers, all eartag numbers, all tattoos, etc.).  You will need to provide:

1. *ID Type:  From the drop-down menu select the type of identification you will up-load from your computer.

2. Enter the identifying numbers manually in the box provided, do not use any spaces and put a comma between the numbers(i.e. ID123,ID124,ID125
   -or-  place the identification on separate lines:

ID123

ID124

ID125

3. To upload a file, find the location of the file by clicking .  

4. Continue with step 6.

2. Multiple Animals (Sequential).  If you are adding same-species animals that will be listed sequentially, this requires knowing the Base Number, Sequential Start Number and Sequential End Number.  You will need to provide:

1. *ID Type:  From the drop-down menu select the type of identification.

2. *Base Number:  Enter the base number, these are the leading digits that do not change.

3. *Sequential # Start:  Enter the first number of the sequential string.

4. *Sequential # End:  Enter the last number of the sequential string.  

5. Continue with step 6.

• Group of Animals:

• If you are moving a group of same-species animals that you are not going to identify individually nor test.  Enter in the following information:

1. *ID Type:  From the drop-down list select the type identification, if any.

2. *Group/Lot ID:  Enter in an identifying identification name or number for this transfer of animals.

3. *Number of Animals:  Enter in the total number of animals associated with this group/lot.

4. Continue with step 6.

6. Click (Continue).